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  1. adjective Affected or characterized by sorrow or unhappiness.
  2. adjective Expressive of sorrow or unhappiness.
  3. adjective Causing sorrow or gloom; depressing: a sad movie; sad news.
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  • These are the sad, the incredible words, that men so worthy of respect are obliged to insert in the first line of their report! —  Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
  • In this later revision the outlook is so piercing-sad, the phrases of such pregnancy, that the work must belong to Shakespeare's ripest maturity. —  The Man Shakespeare
  • I am sad, sad, that is to say, that I am stunned, that I watch the spring, that I am busy, that I talk as if there were nothing; but I have not been able to be alone an instant since that horrible occurrence without falling into a bitter despair. —  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
  • On her way to Thursday's game, Barb wrote what she called a sad poem about the Reds leaving Sarasota. —  journal-news.com - News
  • It could have been sad-sad is the complicated and interesting place where repentance often starts. —  A Motley Vision
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  1. Middle English, weary, sorrowful, from Old English sæd, sated, weary; see sā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English sad, sed, from Anglo-Saxon sæd, full, sated, having had one's fill, as of food, drink, fighting, etc., = Old Saxon sad = Middle Dutch sad, sat, Dutch zat = Old High German Middle High German sat, German satt = Icelandic sathr, later saddr = Gothic (Moesogothic) saths, full, sated (cf. sōths, satiety); orig. past participle with sufflx -d (as in cold, old, etc.: see -d, -ed), from ✓ sa, fill, which appears also in L. sat, satis, sufficiently, satur, sated, Greek ἄμεναι, satiate, ἄατος, insatiable, ἄδην, sufficiently, Old Irish sathach, sated, sasaim, I satisfy, saith, satiety: see sate, satiatc, and satisfy. The development of the concrete physical sense ‘heavy’ from that of the mental sense ‘heavy’ (if it does not come from the orig. sense ‘filled’) is parallel with the development of ‘keen,’ sharp-edged, from ‘keen,’ eager, bold.
  2. from Middle English sadden, from Anglo-Saxon sadian, be sated or tired, gesadian, fill, satisfy, satiate (= Old High German satōn, Middle High German saten = Icelandic sethja, satisfy), from sæd, full, sated: see sad, adjective Cf. Gothic (Moesogothic) ga-sōthjan, fill, satisfy, from sæd, sōths, satiety.
  3. from Middle English sadde, sade; from sad, adjective
 

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